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    EBSI projects
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<h2>Public Administrations Interoperability</h2>

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<h3>Helping citizens access public services at regional and national levels by establishing interoperability for public
    administration-issued citizen credentials.</h3>

<p class="reference">The vision</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Led by a consortium of 5 Spanish Public entities representing +11M citizens throughout Spain.</h2>
<p class="txt">Together, the project is shaping the future of national public administration in Europe by helping citizens effortlessly gain access to local resources and facilities between regional and local public administrations in Spain.</p>

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    <span>5</span>
    <p class="txt">Public Law entities</p>
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    <span>1</span>
    <p class="txt">Reasearch Centre</p>
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    <span>3</span>
    <p class="txt">IT providers</p>
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    <p class="modal-reference">Digitalising public services</p>
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            <p class="txt">Participating countries:</p>
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            <img src="/digital-building-blocks/sites/download/attachments/710119737/ico-flag-spain.svg" alt="Flag of spain">
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            <p class="txt">Regional governments:</p>
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            <img src="/digital-building-blocks/sites/download/attachments/710119773/ico-gobierno.png?api=v2" alt="">
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            <p class="txt">Public administrations:</p>
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            <p class="txt">Public research centres:</p>
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            <img class="lg" src="/digital-building-blocks/sites/download/attachments/710119773/ico-comp-i2cat.png?api=v2" alt="">
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            <p class="txt">IT providers:</p>
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            <img class="lgr" src="/digital-building-blocks/sites/download/attachments/710119773/ico-it-vid.png" alt="Logo of validated id">
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            <p class="txt">Infrastructure:</p>
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            <img src="/digital-building-blocks/sites/download/attachments/710119737/ico-logo-ebsi.svg" alt="Logo of EBSI European Blockchain">
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<p class="reference">The challenge</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Accessing regional municipality services is overly bureaucratic.</h2>
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    Interoperability issues between regional and local governments hinder cross-national and cross-regional
    opportunities for citizens. When a Spanish or EU citizen moves to a region in Spain to live, work or study, there is
    no unbureaucratic process in place to exchange, process, and authenticate citizen data to offer access to local
    public services.
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<p class="reference">The opportunity</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Web3 has the potential to revolutionise interoperability between governments, for
    citizens.</h2>
<p class="txt">
    Web3 technology allows better information exchange between administrations. It gives the opportunity for public
    administrations to request, trust, and integrate citizen attestations of attributes issued by a third administration
    in their own public service offices. This gives citizens better access to local and regional public services for
    daily life, with local and regional credentials expected to be used more frequently than national ones.
</p>
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    A Web3 presentation and verification infrastructure for citizen identification credentials brings together three main technologies:
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    <li>Digital Wallets: used by citizens and public administrations to receive, store, and send credentials on the move.</li>
    <li>Verifiable Credentials: for formatting, presenting, and exchanging credential data in a machine-friendly way.
    </li>
    <li>Blockchain: for delivering a highly secure, resilient, and decentralised way of verifying credential information.
    </li>
</ul>

<p class="reference">The project</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Building the foundations of a new digital public administration infrastructure using
    EBSI.
</h2>
<p class="txt">
    The project leverages the power of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) to build the foundations
    of the digital infrastructure needed for interoperability among local, regional, and national public
    administrations.
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    The vision is to create a presentation and verification platform that establishes a Mutual Trust agreement among
    Regional and Local governments to exchange and recognise different types of verifiable attestations of attributes to
    improve administrative services to citizens, based on the EU SSI Trust Model supported by EBSI.
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<p class="txt">EBSI allows governments (and other institutions endorsed by them) to issue multiple verifiable attestations of citizens’ attributes under their respective administrative political competence, in which citizens are the authentic owners of the verifiable credential defining the attestation. Citizens need to continue using public services when moving across regions. SSI and Verifiable Credentials include citizens as an active element of interoperability between public administration systems. The objective of this project is to develop and understand:
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    <li>How regional governments and other institutions endorsed by them can issue multiple Verifiable Attestations
        (VAs) of citizens’ attributes under their current political competence.</li>
    <li>How a citizen can receive, hold, and share VAs securely using their EBSI-conformant wallet.</li>
    <li>How regional governments can simplify access to citizen services by requesting and verifying a citizen attribute (as part of a verifiable credential) even if issued by another government.</li>
</ul>

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<p class="reference">The scenario</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Discover​ the scenarios.</h2>

<h3 class="modal-title">1. Issuance and storage of citizen credentials.</h3>
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        <p>Carmen is a Spanish citizen with a Diploma in Education and works as a teacher. Because of agreements among
            regional governments and city councils, Carmen can now gain access to different citizen services while
            traveling and moving across different regions and municipalities:</p>
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            <li>She <span>1</span> <strong>requests</strong> her Teacher Card credential at the Citizen Service Office (CSO) of the Regional
                Government where she is registered, as an official attestation for further authorization purposes for
                public services. The CSO <span>2</span> <strong>issues</strong> Carmen 
                the Teacher Card verifiable credential and she <span>3</span> <strong>stores</strong> it in
                her digital wallet.</li>
            <li>Carmen asks the Citizen Service Office which other credentials she can 
                get from the Regional Government. As it is available, she <span>4</span> <strong>request</strong> an 
                official Foreign Language Lv credential for her English proficiency from 
                the Official Language School and a Disability Card, both <span>5</span> <strong>issued</strong> by 
                the regional CSO, to be <span>6</span> <strong>stored</strong> in her wallet.</li>
            <li>She asks about a Proof of Residence, but the Regional Government does not have 
                the competence to issue it. So, she will <span>7</span> <strong>request</strong> 
                it at the City Council CSO of the city where she lives. Once identified, 
                the City Council CSO will <span>8</span> <strong>issue</strong> a Proof 
                of Residence verifiable credential that she will <span>9</span> <strong>store</strong> in her wallet.</li>
            <li>She can even <span>10</span> <strong>request</strong> her Official Professional College to <span>11</span> <strong>issue</strong> her
                 a verifiable credential as a Licensed Professional in education, that she will also <span>12</span> <strong>store</strong> in her wallet.</li>
        </ul>
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<h3 class="modal-title">2. Presentation of citizen credentials to access cross-regional services.</h3>
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        <p>Because of agreements among regional governments and city councils, Carmen can now gain access to different citizen 
            services while traveling and moving across different regions and councils in Spain.</p>
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            <li>She can <span>13</span> <strong>present</strong> her Teacher Card credential at Public Museums and public transport networks across Spain which
                can be <span>14</span> <strong>verified</strong> against the EBSI ledger and be <span>15</span> <strong>granted</strong> free or discounted entrance.</li>
            <li>She can also <span>16</span> <strong>present</strong> her Proof of Residence and disability credentials to the City Council. Once the City
                Council <span>17</span> <strong>verifies</strong> them against the EBSI ledger, the credentials can be used to <span>18</span> <strong>access</strong> townhall services
                throughout Spanish cities, such as borrowing a book from a city library or parking in Disability Reserved Areas.
            </li>
            <li>Carmen then decides to apply for a teaching role at the i2cat Research Centre. The role offer outlines three
                requirements: a Licensed Professional credential, a Foreign Language Lv attestation of a certain level of English
                fluency, and local residency. As part of this process, she <span>19</span> <strong>presents</strong> the three verifiable credentials that attest
                these requirements. The i2cat Research Centre <span>20</span> <strong>verifies</strong> the credentials against the EBSI ledger, verifying her
                profile for further application processing.</li>
        </ul>
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<p class="reference">The project plan</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Current implementation stage and plan.</h2>

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<p class="reference">Next steps</p>
<h2 class="heading-deco terciary">Mobilisation of the ecosystem is key to driving adoption.</h2>
<p class="txt">Achieving this unified citizen experience demands a strategic and operational paradigm shift, mobilising a vast ecosystem involving legal entities, ministries, municipalities, and regional governments, as well as locating vendors and IT providers to participate in the ecosystem, providing solutions and investing in public sector interoperability.
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